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The Fourth Industrial Revolution means the universal digitization of all areas of the economy, including industry and logistics. New digital technologies enable real-time monitoring of production processes and obtain a high level of flexibility and productivity of cyber-physical systems (CPS). The idea of CPS means a set of intelligent devices, machines, and autonomous transport that communicate with each other using modern digital technologies capable of collecting, processing and exchanging vast amounts of data in real-time.Nowadays, each company should be perceived as an intelligent module to be used in the cyber-physical network for producing and delivering a product to the customer. Therefore, enterprises should raise the level of technologies used and focus on open communication in the network. Modern enterprises can offer more complex, innovative products and services tailored to customers' needs, combining their potential into a cyber-physical network organization. The idea of such a cyber-physical production network means joint execution of production orders using digital communication technologies, the Industrial Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud Computing technologies and fully automated production systems and processes of individual network partners.The article aims to identify the critical problems of planning cyber-physical production networks of SMEs and to present the concept of planning temporary networks of enterprises capable of implementing personalized products in the Industry 4.0 environment. The proposed approach considers production flow variants considering logistic constraints. One of the significant advantages of the proposed approach is creating dynamic, temporary alliances of small and medium-sized enterprises that can be simultaneously involved in many different projects (networks).
Keywords: Cyber-physical production networks, SMEs, networks planning, production flow planning© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.